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The poetical works of William Wordsworth. New and complete annotated ed ... - Page 322
by William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870
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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions and Notes

William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 pages
...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater...comprehended, and are more durable; and, lastly, because m that condition jhe passions of men are incorporated with the_ beautiful and permanent forms of nature....
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Wordsworth & Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads 1798

William Wordsworth - 1911 - 296 pages
...a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that situation ls our elementary feelings exist18 in a state of greater simplicity and consequently...germinate from those elementary feelings ; and from the fiecessary character of rural occupations13 are more easily bmprehended ; and are more durable ; and...
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An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times

Thomas Hill Green - 1911 - 102 pages
...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated... .The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real...
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Indiana University Studies

Indiana University - 1913 - 536 pages
...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater...incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.'2 Wordsworth's statement is prior to Crabbe 's, though Crabbe had given his practical illustration...
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A Bookman's Letters

Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1913 - 462 pages
...and speak a plainer and more emphatic language. It is true, of course, that he chose his themes, ' because in that condition the passions of men are...with the beautiful and permanent forms of Nature.' But the other side should not be overlooked. From this springs Wordsworth's doctrine of poetic diction,...
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Masters of English Literature

Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 488 pages
...and speak a more emphatic language, because our elementary feelings there have a greater simplicity ; and lastly, "because in that condition the passions...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature." This might be true of an ideal rustic society of the lower classes, but where can such society be found...
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Wordsworth

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1915 - 254 pages
...bgcaTi^^K^nnpin'ers'TaFlrurat life germinate from those elementary feelings, and, from the necessary character o? rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and...because in that condition the passions of men are incorpor4 ated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. The language, too, of these men has...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 pages
...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our - <n "| * ) q'h_V j 5 D켾 ^ ` T 9 r " > 0 VX ! r V ( В y aޡ ,J , s ] [30 rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and are more durable; and, lastly, because in...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 pages
...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our aculty pleasant to exercise, hard to hoodwink, fr^m the necessary character of [30 rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and are mores...
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William Wordsworth, how to Know Him

Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1916 - 330 pages
...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...; because the manners of rural life germinate from these elementary feelings, and, from the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily...
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